MUNSTER – Donald P. Fesko, CEO of Community Hospital, has been named the American College of Healthcare Executives Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award recipient as the 2012 Young Healthcare Executive of the Year. The award honors an exceptional healthcare executive who is younger than 40. “We are proud that ACHE has selected Don as the …
GARY – Peter M. Liguori has been named CEO and president at Majestic Star Casino. He will take over on March 8. Most recently, Liguori was president of HGMI Gaming, formerly Hyatt Gaming Management, and also was vice president of finance for Ameristar Casinos. Majestic Star operates two casino boats at Buffington Harbor in Gary. …
VALPARAISO – Rex Richards, president of the Greater Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce, has been named Chamber Executive of the Year by Indiana Chamber Executives Association. It is the first time a chamber executive from Northwest Indiana has received the honor. Richards has been with the Valparaiso Chamber since 2006, but has previously served with chambers …
SCHERERVILLE – Erin Trzcinski has been named director of Strategic Development for the Business Solutions Group. She is a 2011 graduate of Purdue University. She assists with new business, advertising, public relations and social media. Christine Wallace has been named vice president of business development for the Staff Source division o Business Solutions Group. Previously, …
GARY – Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson has announced that Speros Batistatos, president and CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, has been appointed to the Gary Park Board. “Speros has a true passion for the City of Gary and we are delighted that is joining the park board,” said Freeman-Wilson. “I am honored to …
WEST LAFAYETTE – The recently created Center for Global Food Security at Purdue University has named Gary Burniske as managing director. Burniske was director of Mercy Corps in Bogota, Colombia, and will run the daily operations of the center at Discovery Park near the West Lafayette campus. He also announced the center had received grants …
MUNSTER – Through several private donations, 10 women will be able to receive diagnostic mammograms at the Women’s Diagnostic Center. St. John resident Shelley DeYoung is a two-year cancer survivor and said her recovery was because of Community Hospital and the Women’s Diagnostic Center along with support from her employer, Illiana Heating and Air Conditioning. …
SOUTH BEND – Mark Murray, president and CEO of Center for Hospice Care, has been re-elected to a one-year term as chairman of the board for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. The group has 52,000 members, including 3,700 hospice and palliative care provider members. Murray has served on the 24-member national board since …
by Rick A. Richards Michael Pound has become fully Americanized since coming here on a two-year temporary work visa 23 years ago. Not the fast-food, shopping mall kind of Americanized, but the full embrace of freedom and opportunity kind of Americanized. Even so, he still misses the ability to drive his car very fast whenever …
GARY – Sandra Hall Smith of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs has accepted the position of assistant director of the Center for Urban and Regional Excellence (C.U.R.E.) at Indiana University Northwest. C.U.R.E.’s mission is to cultivate grassroots projects and see them through. “I thought if I worked at a university I …
